Missouri Crossroads Of The Continent
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Crossroads Of A Continent
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Author : Peter A. Hansen
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2022-09-20
Crossroads Of A Continent written by Peter A. Hansen and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-20 with Transportation categories.
Crossroads of a Continent: Missouri Railroads, 1851-1921 tells the story of the state's railroads and their vital role in American history. Missouri and St. Louis, its largest city, are strategically located within the American Heartland. On July 4, 1851, when the Pacific Railroad of Missouri began construction in St. Louis, the city took its first step to becoming a major hub for railroads. By the 1920s, the state was crisscrossed with railways reaching toward all points of the compass. Authors Peter A. Hansen, Don L. Hofsommer, and Carlos Arnaldo Schwantes explore the history of Missouri railroads through personal, absorbing tales of the cutthroat competition between cities and between railroads that meant the difference between prosperity and obscurity, the ambitions and dreams of visionaries Fred Harvey and Arthur Stilwell, and the country's excitement over the St. Louis World's Fair of 1904. Beautifully illustrated with over 100 color images of historical railway ephemera, Crossroads of a Continent is an engaging history of key American railroads and of Missouri's critical contribution to the American story.
Crossroads Of A Continent
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Author : Don L. Hofsommer
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2025-06-25
Crossroads Of A Continent written by Don L. Hofsommer and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-06-25 with Transportation categories.
Missouri Crossroads Of The Continent
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Author : Barbara W. Donahoe
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1963
Missouri Crossroads Of The Continent written by Barbara W. Donahoe and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1963 with categories.
Continental Crossroads
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Author : Samuel Truett
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2004-11-01
Continental Crossroads written by Samuel Truett and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-11-01 with History categories.
Published in Cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University. The U.S.-Mexico borderlands have long supported a web of relationships that transcend the U.S. and Mexican nations. Yet national histories usually overlook these complex connections. Continental Crossroads rediscovers this forgotten terrain, laying the foundations for a new borderlands history at the crossroads of Chicano/a, Latin American, and U.S. history. Drawing on the historiographies and archives of both the U.S. and Mexico, the authors chronicle the transnational processes that bound both nations together between the early nineteenth century and the 1940s, the formative era of borderlands history. A new generation of borderlands historians examines a wide range of topics in frontier and post-frontier contexts. The contributors explore how ethnic, racial, and gender relations shifted as a former frontier became the borderlands. They look at the rise of new imagined communities and border literary traditions through the eyes of Mexicans, Anglo-Americans, and Indians, and recover transnational border narratives and experiences of African Americans, Chinese, and Europeans. They also show how surveillance and resistance in the borderlands inflected the “body politics” of gender, race, and nation. Native heroine Bárbara Gandiaga, Mexican traveler Ignacio Martínez, Kiowa warrior Sloping Hair, African American colonist William H. Ellis, Chinese merchant Lee Sing, and a diverse cast of politicos and subalterns, gendarmes and patrolmen, and insurrectos and exiles add transnational drama to the formerly divided worlds of Mexican and U.S. history. Contributors. Grace Peña Delgado, Karl Jacoby, Benjamin Johnson, Louise Pubols, Raúl Ramos, Andrés Reséndez, Bárbara O. Reyes, Alexandra Minna Stern, Samuel Truett, Elliott Young
Travels To The Source Of The Missouri River And Across The American Continent To The Pacific Ocean
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Author : Meriwether Lewis
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1817
Travels To The Source Of The Missouri River And Across The American Continent To The Pacific Ocean written by Meriwether Lewis and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1817 with categories.
Electric Indiana
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Author : Carlos Arnaldo Schwantes
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2023-08-15
Electric Indiana written by Carlos Arnaldo Schwantes and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-08-15 with History categories.
In the early twentieth century, an epic battle was waged across America between the interurban railway and the automobile, two technologies that arose at roughly the same time in the late 1890s. Nowhere was this conflict more evident than in the Midwest, and specifically Indiana, where cities of industry such as Indianapolis, Gary, and Terre Haute were growing faster every day. By 1904, Indianapolis had opened the Traction Terminal, which was widely acclaimed to be the largest and most impressive interurban station in the world. Yet, today there is only 90-mile remnant of this one great system still operating within Indiana. Featuring over 90 illustrations and featuring contemporary accounts and newspaper articles from the period, Electric Indiana is a biographical study of the rise and fall of a onetime important transportation technology that achieved its most impressive development within the Hoosier state.
Spanning The Gilded Age
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Author : John K. Brown
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2024-05-21
Spanning The Gilded Age written by John K. Brown and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-05-21 with History categories.
"The Eads Bridge and its protagonists provide new perspectives on the Gilded Age at large"--
Railroad Nation
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Author : Carlos Arnaldo Schwantes
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2025-05-01
Railroad Nation written by Carlos Arnaldo Schwantes and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-05-01 with Transportation categories.
From passenger tickets, wall calendars, and advertising posters to train orders and bills of lading, railroads have left a colorful paper trail across America. In Railroad Nation, historian Carlos Arnaldo Schwantes examines a fascinating array of these materials, showcasing the railroad industry's incredible variety of eye-catching illustrations to enliven their timetables and promotional brochures. Schwantes traces the evolution of railroad commercial art from drab black-and-white broadsides and text-only advertisements that the early railroads placed in local newspapers to the riotous mélange of color graphics in the early twentieth century, when the visual appeal of public timetables and their thousands of different brochures enticed settlers to create farms, ranches, and towns alongside newly laid tracks. Railroad Nation offers readers an unparalleled look at the ephemera of the railroad industry, highlighting the vibrant history of railroading in America through its rich tapestry of visual materials.
Native Nations
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Author : Kathleen DuVal
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2024-04-09
Native Nations written by Kathleen DuVal and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-04-09 with History categories.
A magisterial history of Indigenous North America that places the power of Native nations at its center, telling their story from the rise of ancient cities more than a thousand years ago to fights for sovereignty that continue today “A feat of both scholarship and storytelling.”—Claudio Saunt, author of Unworthy Republic Long before the colonization of North America, Indigenous Americans built diverse civilizations and adapted to a changing world in ways that reverberated globally. And, as award-winning historian Kathleen DuVal vividly recounts, when Europeans did arrive, no civilization came to a halt because of a few wandering explorers, even when the strangers came well armed. A millennium ago, North American cities rivaled urban centers around the world in size. Then, following a period of climate change and instability, numerous smaller nations emerged, moving away from rather than toward urbanization. From this urban past, egalitarian government structures, diplomacy, and complex economies spread across North America. So, when Europeans showed up in the sixteenth century, they encountered societies they did not understand—those having developed differently from their own—and whose power they often underestimated. For centuries afterward, Indigenous people maintained an upper hand and used Europeans in pursuit of their own interests. In Native Nations, we see how Mohawks closely controlled trade with the Dutch—and influenced global markets—and how Quapaws manipulated French colonists. Power dynamics shifted after the American Revolution, but Indigenous people continued to command much of the continent’s land and resources. Shawnee brothers Tecumseh and Tenskwatawa forged new alliances and encouraged a controversial new definition of Native identity to attempt to wall off U.S. ambitions. The Cherokees created institutions to assert their sovereignty on the global stage, and the Kiowas used their power in the west to regulate the passage of white settlers across their territory. In this important addition to the growing tradition of North American history centered on Indigenous nations, Kathleen DuVal shows how the definitions of power and means of exerting it shifted over time, but the sovereignty and influence of Native peoples remained a constant—and will continue far into the future.
Missouri State Parks
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Author : Missouri Life Magazine
language : en
Publisher: Missouri Life Magazine
Release Date : 2021-05-22
Missouri State Parks written by Missouri Life Magazine and has been published by Missouri Life Magazine this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-22 with Travel categories.
Missouri's identity has long been tied to its role as a crossroads, a land--sometimes a battleground--where east met west, and south confronted north. This borderland character has produced extraordinary personalities and enduring human stories. The same crossroads geography also shapes the rolling plains of the north and west, through the ancient wooded Ozark hills and hollows to the broad alluvial delta of the deep southeast, and along the corridors of the continent's two mightiest rivers. The state's remarkable diversity of people and resources comes alive in this updated second edition of this guide that explores all there is to see and do in our superb state park system. Taum Sauk, Onondaga, and Ha Ha Tonka are here, all about Ozark mountains, caves, and springs. Mastodon State Historic Site, saved only by the refusal of four housewives to take "no" for an answer, revealed the first proof of humans in contact with mastodons 12,000 years ago, while Watkins Mill showcases a farm that added a factory and became a National Historic Landmark. Big Lake, Big Oak Tree, and Confluence ponder the lessons of our restless big rivers, while Pershing Park in the north and Prairie in the southwest exhibit fascinating stories of landscape restored by park staff. More than a score of historic sites honor consequential Missourians--Osage Village and Towosahgy, but also Harry S. Truman, Mark Twain, and Scott Joplin. Other parks and sites preserve Civil War battlefields, bridges, mills, mines, reservoirs, and trails, each with a powerful story to tell. Short essays for each of Missouri's parks and historic sites treat them with insight into each place's main attractions and what makes them special, and beautiful color photographs illuminate each place. Whether packed in your backpack or resting on your nightstand, this volume will serve you as a comprehensive guide to Missouri's park system. Missouri has one of the best state park systems in the country, and this guide is the most up-to-date you will find on our state parks. Most of all, we offer this guide to readers in Missouri everywhere as an evergreen source of inspiration to get out and explore the Show-Me-State's great outdoors and historic sites. We invite you to discover the best of Missouri!